THE SUNDAY STAR. Washington. D. C.***A-5 whether there had been a strike HWMT. MlSt, flag or not there are reasonable Builders Blast grounds for franchise cancella- Senate Okays not lifted, the government paving streets at the time the Senate Debates company * rec- , tion. He said the should not enter the dispute. franchise is surrendered. ord showed that cancellation for Credit Curbs As the bill appeared, there waa possible, although Major Cenditieas cause was the last night Following major no reference to the track re* says Builders here are condi- law that the franchise can yesterday’s Measure for' of the Hoqse bill, under moval. estimated to be a (5 mil- Franchise With be cancelled without cause. sharply denounced tions expense. Capital Transit tightening Vhich the District and the lion Management Government action company officials reportedly argued that Scored requirements transit would enter a responsibility was firmly up home credit one-year agreement: their He asserted that the Wolfson existing legislation. City management and called It a “real blow” to Transit 1. Capital Transit will con- fixed lor Eye came Seizure on Clock into the com- officials, it was reported, pany was goad lower and middle income fam- tinue to operate the system “as con- when it in finan- Continued Frans First Page | they were afraid >;? ’>•-/'• r A nervous Senate, talking required by its franchise obliga- tended that V cial condition and “had taken ilies. original new legislation would supersede -jt sioners’ draft. But he tions.” ¦p | about ghosts and precedents, the assets and evacuated them.” By raising payments and down said generally “we’re in agree- company bargain existing law. a He said the action of the com- terms the 2. The will took two and half hours last shortening mortgage ment with the principles of the with unions representing em- Session Resumes |^^hN pany compelled the Senate to Government has made it im- ' night decide it would like to to to buy bill.” ployes under terms and condi- The committee session re- l Capital take action. possible for thousands Company by p.m„ ¦ cancel the Transit Co.’s Victory for tions “directed the Com- sumed at 2 and at 2:50 Senator Holland. Democrat of homes who otherwise could have missioners.” Chairman McMillan franchise.! Florida, The House bill was generally asked the said he was concerned done so, spokesmen said. 3. Transit ; transit and city officials to leave After all the talking was over, considered a clear-cut victory for Salaries of Capital j to see to it that the measure, An official of the Home Co. officers would be frozen at , the hearing room. Fifteen min- the Senators—many of them which he supported, did put Capital Transit in its running they so misgivings not Builders Association termed as the July 1, 1955, level. In the utes later, the chairman told re- said did with Congress position fight with the Commissioners. i ’; >B .1 for the bill with a in the of de- "unfortunate” an announce- event wages are increased to i porters the bill had - been ap- Phß& —voted priving the company, any There still was the spectre that chorus of ayes. There was a or ment by the FHA and the Vet- union employes, “appreciate in- proved. i other company of its property cutting the differences between the Sen- adopted scattering of erans Administration creases” may be made to sal- He said the measure noes. . without due process of law. mortgage ate and House measures could employes substantially the form it As they debated, the Senators down maximum terms adjourn- aried “other than i was in years years not be resolved before by emerged conference figuratively watched the clock.; It was at his instance that from 30 to 25 and officers” as set the Commis- from the M •¦,. B presented raising require- ment. the transit company \|i They were working against ad- Senator Morse the down payment sioners. between s*l expected assuring by per cent. key problem, obviously, is Any operating ex- and Commissioners. Only one journment, week, amendment the com- ments two A 4. deficit in ¦ this 1 compulsory and said they didn’t want to ! pany’s right of compensation. A spokesman for the National how to reconcile the penses during the year shall be icommittee amendment was ! Senator Morse said the matter Builders as against voluntary removal of paid by the District to the transit t voted. r leave the District Commission- Association of Home said, ers without power to do some- had been discussed in committee said the surprise Government the franchise. company. Any such deficit could I This, members was a on by Aber- thing about the long walkout, , but that it was felt that it was action “blasts the aspirations of One House committee mem- not mclude “any return in- ¦ move Representative /mJi , constitutionally impossible nethy. Democrat, Mississippi, \ which has left the city without, to thousands of moderate income ber, who asked that he not be vestment.” Such a deficit could -1 of I,j$ L j mass transportation since July 1. take property without due proc- families.” Likewise, a statement identified, said that J. A. B. include depreciation and taxes, , to strike from the draft lan- the : ess. For that reason, he said, “untimely Capital and be determined by existing [ guage which would have assured The debate also disclosed said, the and unwise” Broadwater, Transit change misgivings that the District officials had felt it un- “nullify by ad- president, “testified em- accounting practices of the Pub- ¦ the company of no in Senators’ action serves to most figuring franchise cancellation and seiz-i necessary to put the provision ministrative decree the intent of phaticaly yesterday that he lic Utilities Commission “or upon i depreciation rates in * company ure would establish an unfortu- iin the bill. Congress.” could guarantee enough votes such other terms ... as the Com- finances. Representative Broyhill, Re- nate precedent in a labor dis- Senator Holland said he announcing the new restric- from the stockholders to ratify missioners and Capital Transit ; mightI had In Virginia, co- pute, a precedent that ' not seen “a worse menace to FHA and VAsaid they I relinquishment of the fran- Co. shall agree.” publican, of and tions were Capital “prompt- “voluntary” bill rise to plague Congress later on. democratic government” than designed to forestall inflation. , chise.” 5. Transit will ¦ author of the ly all necessary steps to ) Chairman McMillan, said Amended Four Times the situation due to the transit The new rules for the first time He said company officials are take with emergency. post legis- secure from its stockholders au- * he felt the adopted version was The bill as presented by the Four should share in legally require veterans to : solidly behind the House responsibility, He payment. lation, that, fact, thority to amend said contract ; “the absolute minimum action HL..-:jfl Senate Subcommittee headed by the he added. a down and in a provide relinquishment B cited first the company, and said : draft of the to for the t that Congress can take Senator McNamara, Democrat, W. Pearson, executive transit company rights publie relations. James of all its franchise upon i therefore the best action it can of Michigan, was amended four it had bad vice president of the Washing- bill formed the basis of the one The union also respon- Association, finally Earlier, the the termination of said contract.” ’ take.” One of chief amend- was Home Builders . approved. meeting, times. the said, because of its arbi- ton If such authority is obtained I After the -committee ments put in specific protection sible. he said he hoped the new rules s committee considered a draft days immediately trary demands. He said the by Commissioners on within 90 after the contract : Mr. McMillan went the company’s right, whether would be speedily rescinded. drawn the bill, con- for union had been badly led and orders from Chairman McMil- is signed, under the the ¦ to the House floor and told re- under contract with the District Robert Loftis, public relations 5 tract would be amended by add- porters try to bring up a suit, compensa- Badly advised. . lan, to which the company ob- ¦ he would or in court to director for the National Asso- ing to it the franchise relinquish- “as soon as Ican be rec- of its property. He then listed the District Builders, I jected. ¦ the bill tion for the use He ciation of Hofne said ment provision. ognized.” Ala.—Capt. amendment provided I Commissioners. said that Objection JET ACE AND BRlDE—Montgomery, Harold Another their attitude had the Government’s action was 5 Lane Voices Possibilities Noted Representative Smith, Demo- double that if the company is operated l too often without consultation with Fischer, jr., 30, of Swea City, lowa, United States . been punitive. He said they had taken 1 After the House committee The measure provides that the : crat of Virginia, said he foresaw with by the District Commissioners builders. Engineer getting jet ace recently freed by the Chinese Reds, Is shown continued in , not asked for any other method . action, District Com- one-year period could begin l no great problem in the service could be dealing ’ Lane passage : up his bride, the former Mrs. Mary Jane Peterson, Des Moines, adjacent Maryland. for with the crisis than missioner Thomas A. either from the date of bill for consideration. areas of unwilling testify objection. after their marriage at Maxwell Air Force Base today. Capt. Morse, chief pro- . the one before the Senate. had been to i voiced bitter of the bill or from the date ! Gen. Lane on Radio Senator the relinquishment is voted Fischer will be stationed at BollingAir Force Base after the ponent of the measure, said that 1 Points to Congress, Too about the measure. “The bill would leave franchise I In a radio broadcast last • Commissioners without any by the stockholders, whichever night, Lane said that if honeymoon.—AP Wirephote. the District Committee had said, Congress Bad Precedent Feared r Gen. J Finally, he has long-term solution of the prob- is later. Congress pass a transit reached the conclusion “that the share the blame. He said Holland, Democrat of f fails to j to 1 Senator he told a reporter. As some committee members bill, Commissioners “would responsible officials of the local ‘ Congress its dual Florida, the question lem,” s the presented a had failed in l raised management does not , interpreted it, there are several * have no authority to get the government” had capacity as a national congress : whether the company was pro- “If The Widow strong case to substantiate their 1 its choose to relinquish its fran- possibilities under the bill. 6 wheels running.” Jet Flyer Weds and a local law making body, tected against deprivation of s - r [ of the . one year agreement could be said it would boil down to submission of the bill. . “As national legislature * property without due process of chise at the end con- B He legislation a we period, , contracted, for example, without the company He cited the of 1933 ; doing something which He out that it tract I don’t know what the union and are now i law. pointed t . the franchise removal. But J getting together resolving under which Capital Transit was ’ this we’d do unless we entered an- and Him as POW we have refused to do for the i would be a bad precedent if i . questioned appeared J Who Wrote per- members ' dispute themselves—some- formed. He said this act 48 States. He said Congress has of. other contract to bail them the | point was not taken care to be convinced that the fran- ' thing, said, they have MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 30 were among the guests. They mitted the cancellation of the steadily refused to amend the ! 1 agreed that the > out.” he that Congress Senator Morse chise removal would follow as a y inclination to do. (£>)._Capt. Fischer, Jr., Lt. Ronald Parks of Omaha franchise and that Taft-Hartley Act so that State clear and 1 Gen. Lane said he was “op- shown little Harold are it without provid- : point should be made natural sequence if the bill is "Objective observers have 30-year-old States jet and Lt. Lyle Cameron.of Lin- could cancel and municipal laws may be ap- an amendment to - posed to any bill which intro- s United ace ing compensation fran- * drew up ac- adopted. position that there a prisoner by coln, Nebr. for the plied in similar situations, but duces the District government taken the released as of war passed by the | > compllsh this. The bill emerged from the ; no negotiations, spring, Capt. was credited chise. The bill now was turning the solution of a dispute | 5 have been real the Chinese Reds last Fischer amendment to the ; that it to a 1 Senator Butler, Republican of [ into \ House committee after a long down-to-earth bargaining today with shooting down 10 Russian- Senate is an ' “most drastic remedy.” between labor and manage- *no was married to the widow Maryland, said that cancellation i , conference between District since Degan,” he said type until he was 1933 act. He said Congress except on the basis we I I the strike of an Air Force officer. MIGs in Korea the cancellation of the t was respon- | would leave a question whether r ment Commissioners and Mr. Broad- WWDC. shot April 7, 1953, He said ; for changing the > recommended of lifting the i "iover The groom said his orders down near possible for sible not school the Commissioners could operate have water: Mr. Giddings and Ed- the Commissioners the Yalu River. act would make it ’ fare rate from its present 3 ' franchise. If the franchise is I ' | He said would bring him to Bolling Air city take the pro- Capital Transit services extend- mund L. Jones, general counsel. ‘•'Still feel that seizure is a neces- He recalled attempted "brain- the to over ’ cents to half the normal adult Force Base in Washington after perty without paying the book ’ ing into Maryland. He also said l ¦ Their two-hour conference was sary corollary to lifting the washing” techniques the Reds : fare, and for not relieving util- s the honeymoon. the company, much in ' that transit companies are aban- sandiwched between morning * franchise. Without a seizure used on him and his buddies but value of ities of some of the they operations Mary value. -1 taxes doning “fixed wheel” | and afternoon sessions of the provision, he added, the Com- His bride is Mrs. Jane added “it sure didn’t work on excess of its real face. He said also that Con- e Peterson, Des Moines, lowa, who and substituting buses. He feared 1 U.S. Note Asks committee. missioners would have no way me.” Court Suits Expected gress has “not granted home on corresponded regularly : that if this were done lines Log Day of forcing operation of the com- with him Fischer, a 26-year-old going > rule, might of the by Mrs. The procedure is not to which have avoided extending jnto Maryland, and according s, pany during year before the after his capture the Chi- blonde, was attempting to involvement” the current to Pay Here, to members, the con- be carried out without court t our in ; buslines would not prove Bulgars day : franchise cancellation became nese Communists in Korea. tact her husband who was killed emergency. the i is the way the progressed: The brief ceremony was per- suits, he conceded. He added 1 , profitable, they would be aban- Br tht Auoclited Preu Consideration, virtually from o effective. over Korea when the corres- that the Commissioners in ask- . Senator Allott, Republican of formed by Maj. Earl W. Minor, pondence began. explained doned. the 10 am. session start, cen- ing the authorities in the ; Colorado, that while Payne, Republican o) The United States demanded I chaplain Maxwell Air Force only for Senator I , around a substitute bill a at “I received three letters asking for any i he did not approve of the bill, a yesterday that Bulgaria pay tered Base. twoyears bill were not ¦ Maine, chairman of commits e draft taken to Capitol Hill by from Mary Jane in the rights city fathers of other cities he would vote for it. He said he - It the second marriage for s 1 which investigated Capital Tran- “prompt and adequate” com- ‘ transit company officials. was I was imprisoned,” Capt. Fisch- > believed the Senate could not go the both. Mrs. Fischer has 5- do not have. He said lt is time [ sit Co. two years ago, chaTget pensation to the families of 12 At 11:20, committee members ¦s j; a er said. “The Commies told me Congress to give the Commis- . home leaving the people of the Capita I year-old daughter, Dana Lynn, they for ! that the management of shooting out, leaving the city and they had many others would authority they should District without legislation. Americans killed in the l filed marriage, Capt. sioners 1 Transit “has made itself a soli< closeted in ji "by her first and let me read if I would ‘play bill, > “Thousands and thousands of of Israeli airliner last t transit officials an!i| DOWNTOWN Fischer, City, have. Seizure under the he ' wall of resistance against settle- down an agree measure who is from Swea along’ with them.” - people are injured every day by Wednesday. effort to on the a 6-year-old insisted, would not be conflsca- of the strike." later, I lowa, has son, Har- The story-book romance ! strike,” “Only r ment Two hours the officialsIs tion. the he asserted. ’ questions, Bulgaria called reported disagree- old, m. Capt. . they in a series of Sena- also was on 1 emerged, and started when Fischer was Citing the alternates, author- because of what are suf- ' Saltonstall, Republican | | you my camp 1 tor o: if in the note to Inform the United on several points. Aside "This makes brother,” released from the prison ity for the Commissioners to sering am I willing to vote for -1 ment Lynn China, re- -1 -3 Massachusetts inquired whethei ir of what steps it has » from Commissioners’ basic Dana commented to Har- in Oschengyang, and operate the property y the bill.” r states the seize and Congress being asked to giv< e taken to punish those respon- objection thie “voluntary” bill, old after the wedding. turned to his home in Swea or a with Like a ghost, he predicted, was • to to make contract i the the Commissioners any more e sible and to insure against any involved means IS Capt. Fischer’s best man was City, lowa, where he met his Capital Transit for the company y bill would “rise up and plague e r main differences I Siar Parking Plaza Wynne- 1 power is nprmally possesset d similar dfccurrence. computing a possible operat- | Lt. Col. Edward Heller of wife-to-be for the first time. operate e than of to it, he said he was s us.” He said it strains the in- ' by mayors and Britain made ing language defining wood, Pa., who was liberated Capt. Fischer was divorced plan j to any of other cities. France ! deficit and «E Sts. convinced the second would tellect think that cause Mayor v protests. The British sj: 10th N.W.i: along May 31. wife day he was re- e He asked if the of Nev similar 1 the firm’s responsibility for re- with him last from his first the 1 be followed “providing there is ai other than the strike ' o foreign office, protesting the Two other jet pilots released was shot down on the “Yalu sponsible York or Detroit “has power t< moving streetcar tracks and re- reasonable proposal by Capital I for the situation de- any - British, four by the Reds at the same time sweep.” 1 manding the legislation. * take over transit” in sim- death of five Transit.” emergency. Canadians and four South Capehart, Republican, ilar strike Senator '¦ Damages Indicated “Generally so,” replied Sen- - Africans aboard the plane, of Indiana, expressed his mis- McNamara, described the shooting as “an bill. He said it must be realized i ator Democrat oi f givings about the that the action would be “plac- - Michigan, and chairman of tSi »unjustifiable action.” France, Transit Measure we the j - Text of “Here are at tail end legis- several citizens ing he'said, t the United States and the e subcommittee which wrote which also had of the session,” “and it on strike, I aboard, said the attack was me we considering g District of Columbia liable te o lation the seems to are * tremendous damages—including g Senator Saltonstall declarec d similar to “an act of war.” far reaching Fifty-eight persons Cleared by House Group one of the most ; loss of profits.” that seizure of Capital Transit t died when pieces legislation of that has urged might very expensive plane was shot down during s^^i ant i the • may us He related he had ir o be hill < during period shall be de- come before us. It affect receivership flight Aviv, savings’^ The text of the transit said * committee that a said, hope that the District a from London to Tel • long there are P “I t as approved by the House Dis- termined in accordance with the for a time. Yet jbe sought. He called this a Commissioners will not operate e Bulgaria has admitted “with ¦ 4| pj'l QUIET | AUTOMATIC ¦ trict Committee follows: accounting practices now pre- ¦ few Senators on the floor and “cleaner procedure” and saic a 1 this company for any longei r regret” that Communist anti- scribed by the Public Utilities i there seems little interest.” aircraft guns downed the plane A bill to authorize the Capital ' that a contract with the union i, than they have to. I am afraid -1 Commission or upon such other • At one time a count of Sena- ’ under a receivership, would hav« it would be very expensive tc o and has promised to pay at Transit Co. under certain condi- . present showed about 20. e compensation. franchise, terms and conditions as the com- tors to be approved by the court. .. the District of Colmbia.” least part tions, to surrender its , Capital Transit missioners and . . •” Damages Mihtm*E- “A Certain Rich Man would have been mini- and for other puposes. Co. shall agree. Be it enacted by the Senate Senator Neely, Democrat oft mized, he said. a labor and House of Representatives of 6. Capital Transit Co. will West Virginia, in a rousing ; “This is more than the United States of America in 1 promptly take all necessary steps 1 speech waded into Louis E. dispute,” he said. He asserted : Congress assembled. to1 secure from its stockholders 1 Wolfson, Florida financier who j there had not been one step by of authority to amend said con- . the Commissioners “to seek re- PIANOS That the Commissioners i board chairman of the com- l K? KEYBOARD provide for relinquish- is dress in a court of law or a FULL -y1 the District of Columbia are' tract to -1 pany, and his group. AND UP authorized to enter into an i ment of all of its franchise rights He said he would take his 5 court of equity.” SJt MONTHLY ] operating contract with the 1 upon the termination of said Luke, X:3O. This is: Senator Capehart asked days text from \ approving Plus Hauling Charges Capital Transit Co. for a period i contract., If within 90 after “A certain rich man went down whether in the bill of one year from the effective the date of the contract hereby and i Congress “would not be doing STORY tr CLARK GEORGE STECK :| 1 from Jerusalem to Jericho management date of this act or from the date i authorized, said authority is ob- fell among thieves which stripped 1 just what both and NfW MIS CHICKERING MASON » HAMLIN < ? • authority is obtained from the tained, the parties agree that ; him of his raiment and wounded 1 labor want us to do?” ft Imhwhhh. •« WURLITZER HUNTINGTON STEIFE stockholders under paragraph 6, said contract shall be amended 1 him and departed, leaving him ! Senator Morse said no. He CABLE WINTER STEINWAY | pro- by inserting following para- say bill “is H. M. ¦ a ummu ¦ ntfn whichever is the later, to the half dead.” went on to that the °7|, BRADBURY CABLE-NELSON MUSETTE vide mass transportation in the graph: man, he said, the last thing the company M f| by Capital For the certain added, area now served Capital Transit Co. shall re- • people inj wants.” Labor, he was 4 substitute the million against Transit Co., said contract to con- linquish all of its franchise rights > Washington area. He likened j so it that its members following the Value! tain substantially the upon the termination of said the Wolfson group to the thieves JORDAN'S An Unusual Piano 1 Ave., Spring provisions, and in addition such agreement and said relinquish- ’ who took the man’s raiment and Corner 13th » G St*. N.W. 9332 Georgia Silver provisions not inconsistent ment accepted by surpassed JUniptf 5-HOS BRAND-NEW, FAMOUS MAKE other shall be the ¦ charged, “Nothing has STcrling 3-9400 » herewith as the commissioners ; Commissioners and thereafter r the methods by which Wolfson and the Capital Transit Co. may Capital Transit Co. shall be un- has shaken down the people of effectively carry ¦ PIANOS agree upon to der no obligation''"!!! furnish » Washington.” Later on he said : SPINET purpose transportation out the of this act: public in the s “If we take no action now, tinrj J 1. Capital Transit Co. will con- ¦ District of Columbia. when we come back next Janu- W properties I ¦ 11 lIH Prices tinue to operate its ary those street cars and buses Reduced as required by its franchise obli- will still be sitting motionless gations. Man Packed in Ice in the garages.” _ 2. Capital Transit Co. will He objected to labor be ini on enter into a contract with the I But Dies of Fever blamed for the impasse. He said bargaining agent of its employes CHICAGO, July UP)—- of any- working 1 30 the strike is not because covering wages and E John Miranda, 52, died of a heat t thing that labor has done oi conditions under terms and con- ‘ stroke last night despite efforts sassed to do. The company failed by 5 GRAND ditions as directed the Com- ’ to bring down his temperature t to bargain collectively, he as- missioners of the District of Co- J by packing him in ice. serted. lumbia for a period not to exceed 1 Mr. Miranda, found uncon- - “Get rid of the Wolfson gang pianos one year. scious on a sidewalk, was taken y and get them out of Washing- 3. Salaries of officers of Capi- ’ to Evangelical Hospital where e ton,” he cried. “When that i! 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